Historical weather data, all-time temperature records, and monthly climate averages for Hillcrest, DC. Explore typical weather conditions by week for trip planning, and see how today compares to the historical record.
April 5th in Hillcrest sits right in that pleasant shoulder-season sweet spot, with highs averaging 65° and lows around 42° across 75 years of records. The date has seen some wild swings, though — from a scorching 85° back in 1956 to a bitter 26° low in 1964. Rain is a coin-flip more than a third of the time, so keep an umbrella handy.
Hillcrest weather doesn't mess around at the extremes — the mercury has climbed as high as 106° in July 2011 and crashed to -10° in January 1982, a 116-degree spread between the all-time marks. A single day in June 2006 dropped 7.37 inches of rain, and a January 1966 storm buried the area under 16 inches of snow.
If warmth is the goal, mid-July is Hillcrest's peak, with average highs hitting 90° during the week of July 16–22 — though that's also when rainfall is heaviest, averaging over an inch a week. Winter bottoms out in mid-January with highs only reaching 43°. Spring and fall offer the most comfortable windows, with April and October both sitting in the pleasant 68–70° range.